3:29 For when I came thither, and had seen impieties without number, then my soul saw many evildoers in this thirtieth year, so that my heart failed me.

3:30 For I have seen how thou sufferest them sinning, and hast spared wicked doers: and hast destroyed thy people, and hast preserved thine enemies, and hast not signified it.

3:31 I do not remember how this way may be left: Are they then of Babylon better than they of Sion?

3:32 Or is there any other people that knoweth thee beside Israel? or what generation hath so believed thy covenants as Jacob?

3:33 And yet their reward appeareth not, and their labour hath no fruit: for I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

3:34 Weigh thou therefore our wickedness now in the balance, and theirs also that dwell the world; and so shall thy name no where be found but in Israel.

3:35 Or when was it that they which dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments?

3:36 Thou shalt find that Israel by name hath kept thy precepts; but not the heathen.

4:1 And the angel that was sent unto me, whose name was Uriel, gave me an answer,

4:2 And said, Thy heart hath gone to far in this world, and thinkest thou to comprehend the way of the most High?